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Mathematical Quotes by Paul Dirac
- A good deal of my research in physics has consisted in not setting out to solve some particular problem, but simply examining mathematical equations of…
- I learnt to distrust all physical concepts as the basis for a theory. Instead one should put one's trust in a mathematical scheme, even if…
- Theoretical physicists accept the need for mathematical beauty as an act of faith... For example, the main reason why the theory of relativity is so…
- The research worker, in his efforts to express the fundamental laws of Nature in mathematical form, should strive mainly for mathematical beauty. He should take…
- The underlying physical laws necessary for the mathematical theory of a large part of physics and the whole of chemistry are thus completely known, and…
- What makes the theory of relativity so acceptable to physicists in spite of its going against the principle of simplicity is its great mathematical beauty.…
- It is quite clear that beauty does depend on one's culture and upbringing for certain kinds of beauty, pictures, literature, poetry and so on...But mathematical…
- A theory with mathematical beauty is more likely to be correct than an ugly one that fits some experimental data.
- A book on the new physics, if not purely descriptive of experimental work, must essentially be mathematical.
- The physicist, in his study of natural phenomena, has two methods of making progress: (1) the method of experiment and observation, and (2) the method…
- The fundamental laws necessary for the mathematical treatment of a large part of physics and the whole of chemistry are thus completely known, and the…
More Mathematical Quotes
- Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities. — Aristotle
- It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world. — Aristotle
- The whole is more than the sum of its parts. — Aristotle
- If I am given a formula, and I am ignorant of its meaning, it cannot teach me anything, but if I already… — Saint Augustine
- All science requires mathematics. The knowledge of mathematical things is almost innate in us. This is the easiest of sciences, a fact… — Roger Bacon
- For the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics. — Roger Bacon
- I did what I could to inflate the rumor I was on my way to stardom. What I was on my way… — Tallulah Bankhead
- The orthodox believers in God are divided into two camps, one of which maintains that the existence of God is as demonstrable… — Annie Besant
- As a man may be born with a mathematical faculty, and by training that faculty year after year may immensely increase his… — Annie Besant
- My suggestion is that at each state the proper order of operation of the mind requires an overall grasp of what is… — David Bohm
- No matter how correct a mathematical theorem may appear to be, one ought never to be satisfied that there was not something… — George Boole
- Music rhythms are mathematical patterns. When you hear a song and your body starts moving with it, your body is doing math.… — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar